Benedict Cumberbatch is gay?

Contents:

• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH EXPLAS WHY HE'S PLAYG GAY NEW WTERN FILM
• IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG?
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH PRAISED BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP FOR DISCSG SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATN
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 67 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH OPENS UP ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?

”Sexualy is at the foreont of Cumberbatch’s hotly anticipated film, The Imatn Game, which he plays Alan Turg, a gay man who was wily creded wh crackg the Enigma durg World War II.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

Tragilly, Turg mted suici after the war when he was nvicted of “engagg homosexual relatns”. ”Cumberbatch, who officiated his iends’ Seth Cummgs and Rob Rr’s civil ceremony Ibiza last year, also spoke about how difficult is for gay actors Hollywood. “I thk if you’re gog to sell yourself as a leadg man Hollywood to say ‘I’m gay’, sadly, is still a huge obstacle, ” he said.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

“We all know actors who are [gay] who don’t want to talk about or brg up, or who ny .

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH EXPLAS WHY HE'S PLAYG GAY NEW WTERN FILM

Human rights movements and sexual and gay rights movements have ma huge social progrs the last 40 years, whout a doubt, but there’s a lot more work to be done. At one time mors were very actively spread that actor Benedikt Cumberbatch was gay.

To some extent, the gossip is also related to the fact that the actor played the part of Alan Turg the movie "The Game of Imatn", which cracked the of the German Enigma encryptn mache durg the Send World War, and was later prosecuted for his homosexualy.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually reprsed wboy the 1920s – when homosexualy was wily stigmatized and many plac, crimalized – the upg Netflix film “The Power of the Dog. Hollywood has for s st actors heterosexual relatnships gay rol.

IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG?

Some of the creators volved those films, like director Todd Hayn of “Carol” and Lu Guadagno, who directed “Call Me By Your Name, ” which also starred straight actors, are gay themselv. The film “Moonlight, ” which followed a gay Black man three stag of his life, was celebrated for sisteppg queer stereotyp, though starred some straight actors.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH PRAISED BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP FOR DISCSG SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATN

Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'

(The anizatn didn’t immediately rpond to CNN’s requt for ment regardg straight actors portrayg gay characters. Vany Fair cric Richard Lawson wrote a review of the 2020 film “The Prom” that there’s no “hard and fast le about who should play gay men on screen. ” Nuance, though, is necsary for any actor playg a gay character, he said.

That’s part of why Jam Corn’s stg “The Prom” as a flamboyant fad Broadway star was wily cricized: Corn, who is married to a woman, played to stereotyp of gay men, acrdg to many crics, who said his performance was “sultg” and lled him “offensively misst.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 67 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

“In general, y, I wish more gay actors got the chance to tell our stori, embody our people, rather than straight men gettg aclas for beg brave – or cheers for beg sassy, ” Lawson wrote his review of the film.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH OPENS UP ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

But the ia that playg a gay role is a “brave” cisn for a straight actor is beg ls domant, cric Guy Lodge said an terview wh the Guardian, evinced by the lack of buzz for films such as “Ammone” and “Supernova, ” which both foced on queer love stori portrayed by straight actors.